{"id":1693,"date":"2021-06-01T15:36:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T13:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/01\/amazon-us-customers-given-one-week-to-opt-out-of-mass-wireless-sharing\/"},"modified":"2021-06-01T15:36:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T13:36:49","slug":"amazon-us-customers-given-one-week-to-opt-out-of-mass-wireless-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/01\/amazon-us-customers-given-one-week-to-opt-out-of-mass-wireless-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon US customers given one week to opt out of mass wireless sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics raise transparency fears over plan to turn all smart home devices into \u2018mesh network\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Amazon customers have one week to opt out of a plan that would turn every Echo speaker and Ring security camera in the US into a shared wireless network, as part of the company\u2019s plan to fix connection problems for its smart home devices.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal, called Amazon Sidewalk, involves the company\u2019s devices being used as a springboard to build city-wide \u201cmesh networks\u201d that help simplify the process of setting up new devices, keep them online even if they\u2019re out of range of home wifi, and extend the range of tracking devices such as those made by Tile.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jun\/01\/amazon-us-customers-given-one-week-to-opt-out-of-mass-wireless-sharing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b2982960f6f0bc40d674ad504e772ed111b4ac71\/0_0_3600_2160\/master\/3600.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=71bb28edf123e90f4622f95f3ba60df2\" title=\"Amazon US customers given one week to opt out of mass wireless sharing\" \/>Critics raise transparency fears over plan to turn all smart home devices into \u2018mesh network\u2019<br \/>\nAmazon customers have one week to opt out of a plan that would turn every Echo speaker and Ring security camera in the US into a shared wireless network, as part of the company\u2019s plan to fix connection problems for its smart home devices.<br \/>\nThe proposal, called Amazon Sidewalk, involves the company\u2019s devices being used as a springboard to build city-wide \u201cmesh networks\u201d that help simplify the process of setting up new devices, keep them online even if they\u2019re out of range of home wifi, and extend the range of tracking devices such as those made by Tile. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics raise transparency fears over plan to turn all smart home devices into \u2018mesh network\u2019 Amazon customers have one week to opt out of a plan that would turn every Echo speaker and Ring security camera in the US into a shared wireless network, as part of the company\u2019s plan to fix connection problems for &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/01\/amazon-us-customers-given-one-week-to-opt-out-of-mass-wireless-sharing\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon US customers given one week to opt out of mass wireless sharing<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}